TLDR DevOps 2024-04-26

IBM will buy HashiCorp in a deal valued at $6.4 billion, expanding its cloud-based software products to tap into an AI-powered boom in demand.

New Relic has introduced New Relic AI monitoring, the industry's first APM solution for AI, aiming to democratize observability and provide unparalleled visibility into the entire AI application stack.

This tutorial guides users through configuring centralized logging for AWS WAF web ACLs using AWS Firewall Manager and monitoring logs in near real-time with Amazon Managed Grafana. It also demonstrates how to create dashboards for visualizing AWS WAF logs, aiding in threat intelligence, rule enhancement, false positive troubleshooting, and incident response.

This comprehensive guide discusses topology-aware routing in Kubernetes, its benefits, implementation, and best practices for optimized network paths and improved application performance.

This article discusses Rippling's migration from a third-party CNI to Amazon VPC CNI in its Amazon EKS clusters, aiming to streamline cluster management and secure pod-to-pod communication. Employing a blue-green migration strategy, Rippling successfully transitioned, leveraging native AWS features and reducing the burden of managing operational software in its EKS clusters.

Figma's engineers built a novel tool to keep C++ build times fast. It works by detecting unnecessary headers that would otherwise cause the compilation time to grow significantly. It improved build times by 50% and has kept build times fast since.

When Weaveworks, the creator of Flux, shut down, concerns arose about the future of the open-source project. However, Giant Swarm and other companies like Microsoft Azure and GitLab have pledged support, ensuring the continued maintenance and vitality of Flux.

This project, which started as a joke about cloning friends' voices, evolved into a deeper exploration of software languages, API integration, and text-to-speech technologies, culminating in a fun and educational coding challenge.

A comprehensive comparison and analysis of Sveltos and Argo CD, two GitOps solutions for managing Kubernetes clusters, highlighting their respective strengths and unique features.

OpenTofu 1.7 brings several exciting updates, including state encryption, provider-defined functions, loopable import blocks, and more, aimed at improving user experience and expanding capabilities.